Three portraits by Picasso of his lovers - including one cut from its frame by a burglar and patched with brown tape - netted a total of more than £42million at a London auction... more
Five hundred years of masterpieces including treasures by Michelangelo, Gainsborough and Picasso not seen in public for decades are to go on show in London
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Composer and impresario Andrew Lloyd Webber begins handing out to good causes millions of pounds made from the sale of a painting by Pablo Picasso
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For some, Miró is one of the greatest artists of the
20th century - but although he had a feeling for colour he could not paint or draw and his symbols are signs of arrested development... more
The carefree paintings, sculptures and drawings from the Picasso's years on the French Riviera make for the most exciting and enjoyable show of the summer.... more
Paintings by Picasso, Van Gogh, Monet and Rubens went on display in London in an exhibition of highlights from 'the richest and most exciting' summer art auction season in a generation... more
Masterpieces worth up to £430 million, including works by Picasso and Matisse, have been stolen during an audacious dawn raid on a Paris museum... more
Two paintings by Pablo Picasso created on successive days will be sold by rival auction houses for a total upper estimate of £15million this month... more
In 1937, the blitzing of a Spanish town prompted Picasso to begin work on a vast painting – but one poignant item gave his masterpiece its final form.... more
A victim of disgraced Wall Street financier Bernie Madoff sold his Picasso painting for nearly £10million at Christie's Impressionist and Modern Art auction in New York, helping to revive the ailing art market... more
A copy of Picasso's anti-war painting Guernica which is normally on show at the United Nations in New York is being installed at the Whitechapel Gallery... more
As the £30 million Absinthe Drinker is withdrawn from auction at the last minute, we reveal a secret deal over another masterpiece looted by the Germans during the war.... more
Two artworks have each sold for more than $30 million at the biggest Sotheby's auction of Impressionist and modern art in 16 years. The sale in New York made a total of $238 million. ... more
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